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Show B1 RIDGIE WEBBER, the New York gangster, who is taken to hospital suffering suf-fering from knife wound inflicted in-flicted by a mysterious assailant. I1MEH STABBED III GIG VENDETTA Bridgie Webber, Weak From Wound, Taken to Hospital Under Assumed Name. NEW YORK, June 13. "Bridgie "Bridg-ie Webber, one of the principal prin-cipal witnesses in the Rosenthal murder mur-der case, was stabbed in the back on aft. east side street early this morning. morn-ing. Shortly before 1 o'clock a man whose identity was thon unknown walked ivp to a policeman at the corner of Ninth street and Broadway and complained that'he was suffering from loss of blood as the result of a stab wound. He described himself as Louis Harris, a broker, 35 years old, but when he had been removed to St. Vincent's hospital detectives recognized tho wounded man as Webber. They declared they wero certain of it. The man refused to tell the police who had slabbed him, or of an' of tho circumstances. It was said at tho hospital at 2:30 o'clock this morning that the man undoubtedly would recover. Shortly after the conviction of Police Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Becker and four gunmen as the murderers of Herman Rosenthal, tho gambler, there were many rumors of plots against tho witnesses, but the attack at-tack on "Webber this morning is the first instance of harm that has come to any of the men. It was reported at 3:15 o'clock that Webber had lapsed into unconsciousness and the hospital physicians admitted his condition was serious on account of the great loss of blood. Webber and a friend, John Michaels, (Continued on Page Two.) INFORMER STABBED I llli VEHDETTH (Continued from Page One.) were walking from Third avenue to tho Astor place subway station when the stabbing occurred. Webber evidently tried to hide his wound, but. as ho approached ap-proached Broadwa-, a stationary police officer saw him staggering anJ Webber's friend was unable to support him. While an ambulance was being summoned sum-moned Webber sat. exhausted on the curb in front of Grace church trying to stop the flow of blood. Tho polico-man polico-man said Webber had a nastj' gash in the left shoulder. Neither Webber nor his friend Mich aols would tell much about tho ' stabbing. stab-bing. At first Wobber said it was a "iboy- who had stabbed him with a penknife." pen-knife." It appeared, however, upon first examination of the woujid at; the hospital that, a larger knifo had been used. Keeps the Secret. "I don't know who stabbed me," Webber exclaimed, "and don't want to know,'' he added, annoyed at the detectivo's questioning. Webber asked that his wife be notified no-tified and" sho was summoned to the hospital by telephone. A number of his'frjonds were quick to learn of the stabbing and by 3 o'clock twenty-five or thirty of them had gathered at the hospital. Webb'er admitted his identit3 before ho lost consciousness, but so far ns the stabbing wns concerned all he would say was that his assailant was some unknown boy. He did not even admit his identity until Detective Harvey, who worked on tho Rosenthal ctisc and knew Webber Web-ber well, surprised him by confronting him as ho lay on a cot at the hospital, recorded there as "Harris." "Hello, Bridgio." the detective exclaimed. ex-claimed. "Hollo, Harvey," the wounded man repliod, aud thereafter made no denial that ho was Webber. The stabbing, it was later reported, occurred just after Webber had kept an appointment with Sam Paul, leader of tho Sam Paul association, which figured fig-ured in the early investigations after the Rosenthal murder. It was at an outing of the association, according to stories then printed, that there was talk to tho effect that Rosenthal would be "croaked" because he had "squealed" on Polico Lieutenant Backer as a gambling gam-bling protector and graft collector. |